Alan Rynne
September 2018
Discretize a given freeform surface into panels with the following properties:
Panels must be developable
Panels should be of approximate equal width
Panels should be as straight as possible
Panels should bend by their weak axis to aproximate the surface.
The use of sraight developable planks is widely used in traditional boat building
Connected developable patches for boat hull design.
This techniques have also been used in the architecture world, mainly by Frank Ghery.
His façades are usually a collection of connected developable surfaces.
Latest architectural work following this techiques was:
Burj Khalifa by Frank Ghery
It was designed as a collection of:
A geodesic curve is the generalization of a straight line into curved spaces.
It could be easiy understood as:
The path that a bug follows on a surface if it only moves forward